Recipe Perfect Steak and Ale Pie

Steak and Ale Pie.

You can have Steak and Ale Pie using 17 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Steak and Ale Pie

1. It’s of diced beef.
2. You need of onion, chopped.
3. You need of sliced carrots.
4. It’s of garlic.
5. You need of beef stock.
6. Prepare of boddingtons.
7. You need of basil.
8. You need of thyme.
9. It’s of salt.
10. You need of black pepper.
11. You need of mushrooms.
12. You need of porcini mushrooms.
13. Prepare of flour.
14. You need of oil.
15. Prepare of water.
16. Prepare of cornflour.
17. Prepare of shortcrust pastry.

Steak and Ale Pie instructions

1. Start off by adding the diced beef to some flour and mixing well. Once done add a little oil to a large pan and heating. Add the diced beef and brown. While this is going on add the porcini mushrooms to a small pan of water and leave to cook for about 10 mins..
2. Once browned add the onion and beef stock to the mix and keep stirring..
3. Once throughly mixed add the carrots and mushrooms..
4. At this point add the porcini mushrooms to the mix again keep stirring..
5. Again keep stirring as the mix will stick to bottom of pan other wise. At this point add the boddingtons..
6. At this point it will probably look quite watery but dont worry it will thicken up. At this point you can add the salt, pepper and thyme..
7. Finally after about 20 mins add the basil and either some cornflour or oxo cubes to help thicken the mixture up..
8. Once you have finally got the mixture ready time to sort your pie out. Get your self about 500g of shortcrust pastry either buy or make yourself..
9. Roll the pastry out on a flat surface your going to need to split the pastry for the bottom and topping also depending on the size of your dish..
10. Line the dish with the first lot of pastry making sure there is an overlap on the outside of the dish..
11. Next take your mixture amd sieve it so that alot of the juicy drops into a bowl underneath..
12. Add the sieved mixture to your dish till just below the top and level..
13. Take the second part of your pastry and cover the dish pushing the edges together and slightly into the dish to make a crust around the outside..
14. Finally using a knife slice a few lines into the pastry so it cooks evenly..
15. Place in the oven about 180 for about 30 mins or till pastry golden brown..
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